
WITH DRAWINGS R DECORATIONS BY 
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Miss Annie May Hegeman 

Nov. 5,1937 



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Page I, Title page. 

4, Copyright. 

5, Dedication. 
" 7, Half title. 

9, List of Drawings and Decorations. 

" 13, The Sun Dial. 

" 16, "Tricked in the autumn with the yellow rain. 

" 17, Head Band. 



Page 2 1, "Here would the ringdoves linger." 

25, "Folded, inscribed, and niched it in the stone." 

29, "And spied the tiny letter in the nook." 

33, "The single tear that tear-worn eyes will shed." 

37, "Blue-eyed, frank-faced, with clear and open brow. 

41, "Took out the note; — held it as one who feared 
The fragile thing he held would slip and fall." 

45, "And sauntered past, singing a roundelay." 

47, Finis. 

49, Tail Piece. 






is an old dial, dark with many a stain ; 
In summer crowned with drifting 

orchard bloom, 
Tricked in the autumn with the yellow 
rain, 
And white in winter like a marble tomb; 




ind round about its gray, time -eaten 
brow 
Lean letters speak — a worn and 
shattered row: 
31 am a ^l^aDe : a ^Ijariotoe too atte tl^ou : 

31 marfie tl^e Cime: jsa^c, ©ojsgfip, tio0t tl^ou mt 




iere would the ringdoves linger, head 
to head ; 
And here the snail a silver course 

would run, 
Beating old Time ; and here the 
peacock spread 
His gold-green glory, shutting out the sun. 



I he tardy shade moved forward to the 
noon ; 
Betwixt the paths a dainty Beauty 

stept, 
That swung a flower, and, smiling, 
hummed a tune, — 
Before whose feet a barking spaniel leapt. 





P'er her blue dress an endless blossom 
About her tendril-curls the sunlight 

shone ; 
And round her train the tiger-lilies 
swayed, 
Like courtiers bowing till the queen be gone. 



he leaned upon the slab a little while, 
Then drew a jewelled pencil from her 

zone, 
Scribbled a something with a frolic 
smile, 
Folded, inscribed, and niched it in the stone. 






rhe shade slipped on, no swifter than 
the snail ; 
There came a second lady to the 

place, 
Dove-eyed, dove-robed, and some- 
thing wan and pale — 
An inner beauty shining from her face. 



'he, as if listless with a lonely love, 
Straying among the alleys with a 

book, — 

Herrick or Herbert, — watched the 
circling dove. 
And spied the tiny letter in the nook. 






hen, like to one who confirmation 
found 
Of some dread secret half-accounted 

true, — 

Who knew what hands and hearts 
the letter bound. 
And argued loving commerce 'twixt the two, 



he bent her fair young forehead on the 
stone ; 
The dark shade gloomed an instant 

on her head ; 
And 'twixt her taper-fingers pearled 
and shone 
The single tear that tear-worn eyes will shed. 






he shade slipped onward to the fall- 
ing gloom ; 
There came a soldier gallant in her 

stead, 
Swinging a beaver with a swaling 
plume, 
A ribboned love-lock rippling from his head ; 



|lue-eyed, frank-faced, with clear and 
open brow, 
Scar-seamed a little, as the women 

love ; 
So kindly fronted that you mar- 
velled how 
The frequent sword-hilt had so frayed his glove ; 






ho switched at Psyche plunging in 
the sun ; 

Uncrowned three lilies with a back- 
ward swinge; 

And standing somewhat widely, like 
to one 



More used to "Boot and Saddle" than to cringe 




[s courtiers do, but gentleman withal, 
Took out the note; — held it as one 

who feared 
The fragile thing he held would slip 
and fall ; 
Read and re-read, pulling his tawny beard ; 





lissed it, I think, and hid it in his 
breast ; 
Laughed softly in a flattered happy 

way, 

Arranged the hroidered baldrick on 
his chest. 
And sauntered past, singing a roundelay. 




'he shade crept forward through the 
dying glow; 
There came no more nor dame nor 

cavalier ; 

But for a little time the brass will 
show 
A small gray spot — the record of a tear. 




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